Exodus 12 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The Passover Lamb

(Num 9:1–14; Deu 16:1–8; Eze 45:21–25 )

Exo 12:1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

Exo 12:2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Exo 12:3Speak unto all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month let them take themselves each a lamb, for a father's house, a lamb for a house.

Exo 12:4

Exo 12:4And if the household be too small for a lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; each according to the measure of his eating shall ye count for the lamb.

Exo 12:5

Exo 12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.

Exo 12:6

Exo 12:6And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings.

Exo 12:7

Exo 12:7And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two door-posts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

Exo 12:8

Exo 12:8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs shall they eat it.

Exo 12:9

Exo 12:9Ye shall eat none of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with its in-wards.

Exo 12:10

Exo 12:10And ye shall let none of it remain until the morning; and what remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

Exo 12:11

Exo 12:11And thus shall ye eat it: your loins shall be girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover.

Exo 12:12

Exo 12:12And I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah.

Exo 12:13

Exo 12:13And the blood shall be for you as a sign on the houses in which ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be among you for destruction, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Feast of Unleavened Bread

Exo 12:14

Exo 12:14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as an ordinance for ever shall ye celebrate it.

Exo 12:15

Exo 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread: on the very first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day -- that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Exo 12:16

Exo 12:16And on the first day ye shall have a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation: no manner of work shall be done on them, save what is eaten by every person -- that only shall be done by you.

Exo 12:17

Exo 12:17And ye shall keep the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; and ye shall keep this day in your generations as an ordinance for ever.

Exo 12:18

Exo 12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening.

Exo 12:19

Exo 12:19Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eateth what is leavened -- that soul shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or born in the land.

Exo 12:20

Exo 12:20Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your dwellings shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Exo 12:21

Exo 12:21And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover.

Exo 12:22

Exo 12:22And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and smear the lintel and the two door-posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

A Memorial of Redemption

Exo 12:23

Exo 12:23And Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.

Exo 12:24

Exo 12:24And ye shall observe this as an ordinance for thee and for thy sons for ever.

Exo 12:25

Exo 12:25And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service.

Exo 12:26

Exo 12:26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by this service?

Exo 12:27

Exo 12:27that ye shall say, It is a sacrifice of passover to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshipped.

Exo 12:28

Exo 12:28And the children of Israel went away, and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so did they.

(Exo 11:1–10 )

Exo 12:29

Exo 12:29And it came to pass that at midnight Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exo 12:30

Exo 12:30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his bondmen, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.

Exo 12:31

Exo 12:31And he called Moses and Aaron in the night, and said, Rise up, go away from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said.

Exo 12:32

Exo 12:32Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and go; and bless me also.

Exodus of Israel

Exo 12:33

Exo 12:33And the Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men!

Exo 12:34

Exo 12:34And the people took their dough before it was leavened; their kneading-troughs bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

Exo 12:35

Exo 12:35And the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked of the Egyptians utensils of silver, and utensils of gold, and clothing.

Exo 12:36

Exo 12:36And Jehovah had given the people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they gave to them; and they spoiled the Egyptians.

Exo 12:37

Exo 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.

Exo 12:38

Exo 12:38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks and herds -- very much cattle.

Exo 12:39

Exo 12:39And they baked the dough that they brought forth out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened; for they were driven out of Egypt, and could not wait; neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

Exo 12:40

Exo 12:40And the residence of the children of Israel that they resided in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Exo 12:41

Exo 12:41And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that same day it came to pass that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.

Ordinance of the Passover

Exo 12:42

Exo 12:42It is a night of observance to Jehovah, because of their being brought out from the land of Egypt: that same night is an observance to Jehovah for all the children of Israel in their generations.

(Gen 17:9–14; Exo 12:1–13 )

Exo 12:43

Exo 12:43And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: No stranger shall eat of it;

Exo 12:44

Exo 12:44but every man's bondman that is bought for money -- let him be circumcised: then shall he eat it.

Exo 12:45

Exo 12:45A settler and a hired servant shall not eat it.

Exo 12:46

Exo 12:46In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth any of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

Exo 12:47

Exo 12:47All the assembly of Israel shall hold it.

Exo 12:48

Exo 12:48And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and would hold the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and hold it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

Exo 12:49

Exo 12:49One law shall be for him that is home-born and for the sojourner that sojourneth among you.

Exo 12:50

Exo 12:50And all the children of Israel did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so did they.

Exo 12:51

Exo 12:51And it came to pass on that same day, that Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their hosts.

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